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Maybe this is a stupid idea, but what if people could save those nostalgia posts for a special day (I propose January 24 for obvious reasons). I've been a Mac user for 26 years (omg I'm old) and I enjoy reminders of the past, just not every single day.

I'm already doing that. Nobody is stopping me about telling my opinion either. 99% of these pics add nothing and I'm free to tell my opinion about that. People had this discussion a million times already anyways.
They also take away from other submissions, real news/content. Some subreddits even voluntarily had a no-pics day because of this. One of the best subreddit, /r/askscience, is also one of the most heavily moderated.

Your comment is not constructive. If you care so much then submit things that are so interesting nobod upvotes the photos you dislike. Whining here in the comments accomplishes nothing. People will not read your comment and then think "gee, he's right and I should change my behaviour!"

As you said people have already discussed this. I'm not against you voicing your opinion, but what exactly do you expect to happen as a result of it? Are you just venting?

Criticism can be constructive. Most other submissions get buried soon enough anyways between all the pics. This is just the opinion of a single redditor. Plus the spam filter has decided to hate me anyways, I'm tired to message the mods about submissions that didn't make it through.

This has been discussed at length, several times on reddit. Just because something is the most upvoted, doesn't mean it's the "best" or most important, or best for the health of the subreddit. When a large subreddit allows banal, simplistic imgur posts like the ones OP discussed, the quality of posting in general becomes a race to the bottom as far as lowest common denominator.

You don't have to click on the link. You can just ignore it. I kind of find it annoying how people complain about posts like they just HAVE to look at it. Stop whining and skip the ones that say "look what I found".

I searched "imgur" on the page and found this. It had no replies and was only a minute old when I saw it. By the time the page loaded that comment was there. When I refresh the subreddit the link is no longer there.

This is the only way it can happen. Having a "common guys, really?" post... even from the mods, isn't going to stop it.

I like seeing discussion on older products. Maybe a different subreddit creation? /r/AppleVintageHardware? But posting shit like this (that not everyone subscribing to this Sub agrees with) is just as bad as people posting shit you don't like.

I think that your idea to have a Apple nostalgia subreddit would be good; or even more broad, a ApplePics subreddit. I understand complaints aren't allowed, but without posts like these, we would have nowhere to discuss possibly changing things.

I very frequently upvote these posts. I'm not quite sure why anybody would have a problem with a picture and discussion of Apple hardware in an Apple subreddit. I've read all of the arguments in this thread and I still don't get it.

i love these posts. It's great to see people getting really excited about finding old stuff. What drives me crazy is the, 'what a piece of shit, it's only got a 4gb hard drive hahahahaha....' replies. Apple has been going long enough that nostalgia and history are now part of the dialogue. When i find an old mac in a junk shop, i'm always really excited, and if people want to share their own excitement at finding cool old apple stuff, then good for them. (ok. who wants to see the boxed apple tie-clip mic i got?) hehe.